Manichean Dualism - The Father of Light and the Father of Darkness

christian occultism is derived from the manicheans, whose founder, mani, lived on the earth 300 years after jesus the christ. The great feature of manicheanism is that it studies the function of evil and of suffering in the world. In ordinary thought, the good and the evil are two irreducible qualities, one of which, the good must destroy, the other, the evil. To the manicheANS, however, evil is an integral part of the cosmos,. collaborating in its evolution, finally to be absorbed and transfigured by the good.

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